All My Life for Sale (Kevin)

When I first read what "All My Life for Sale" was about, my first reaction was that this guy must be and idiot. Who would sell all their stuff? But after I started reading I got more interested in the story and how he actually went about selling all his stuff. It started out with a few things, then it ended up being most of his possessions. Looking at this in a personal way, I could never imagine doing what he did. Thinking about it I realized I'm one of the kinds of people that don't like to throw things out, hoping that someday you'll find a use for it. I envy John Freyer in a way, he has gotten past material possessions and just focused on what he needs and not all the extra "stuff." Using eBay was probably the easiest way he could of gone about it at first, that way he was compensated for all of his things. This way he doesn't feel like he's really loosing something, but getting something in return. One of my favorite things about this story is how he actually traveled around to the people he sold his items too and saw how his items were being used and displayed. This man spent almost all of his money, going into his emergency money, just to keep his trip going before he decided not to continue anymore. I don't really know why he actually took all of the trips, but to me it seems like a soul searching experience to me. He ended up deciding he wanted to stay in Iowa. He in a way used this experience to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. As you can probably tell I'm not exactly sure what I'm trying to say, I'm sort of all over the place. To sum it all up, I envy this guy, he did one of the most unselfish things I have ever heard of. This story by John Freyer is, in simple words, cool to me. I don't really know what else to say about it. I have read it over and over again and still don't know how to explain it, other than its cool.